At the southern tip of the lake, Newbury was the terminus for 19th-century trains—10 per day!—that brought vacationers to Lake Sunapee. From Newbury Station vacationers would board steamboats to cruise around the lake to their hotels and villas. More...

Near Newbury, The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens, once the summer residence of diplomat John Milton Hay, is a beautiful place open to the public with house tours, formal and informal gardens and nature trails. More...

The commercial and administrative center of the Sunapee region, New London is a classic New England town with its white churches, public library, sturdy Town Hall, and fine old houses. It also boasts the New London Barn Playhouse offering summer stock theater productions, and Colby-Sawyer College, a small liberal arts-and-sciences college founded in 1837. More...

Crafts Markets

In the summer, Sunapee hosts very well-attended
crafts markets on NH
Route 103B at the blinking light (between
Sunapee Harbor and Sunapee Lower Village). Both buyers
and sellers flock to the intersection's roadsides,
and everything from craftwork through antiques to
junk is available.

Mt Sunapee State Park

Mount
Sunapee State Park has
hiking and interpretive trails, and a Family Adventure Park featuring canopy ziplines, an mountain bike course, aerial challenge course through the treetops, disc golf and miniature golf, and a quad chairlift ride to
the South Peak of Mount Sunapee (2743
feet/836 meters).

Mount Sunapee, the mountain itself, is
organized as Mount
Sunapee Resort, with skiing in winter.
At the summit
there are walking
trails (not
difficult) to an overlook and
to a glacial tarn named Lake Solitude.